He then turned to the head holy men, the lodge soldiers, and the council elders, who had come to take him. “Why do you come at me with clubs and long knives as if I were a thief?” he asked them.
and said, “You who thought you could tear down the sacred lodge and rebuild it in three days—can you even save yourself? If you are the Son of the Great Spirit, then come down off that cross!”
“He set others free,” they said, “but he cannot even free himself. So he is the chief of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel), is he? Let him come down from the cross now, and then we will believe in him!
